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Have you ever walked out on a job interview? 🚶♂️
I did once. The whole experience was frustrating – the interviewer kept questioning my skills even though she had called me in after seeing my resume. 🤷♀️
Here are a few tips if you ever find yourself in a similar situation:
– Stay calm and composed during the interview.
– Politely ask for clarification on any doubts or concerns the interviewer may have.
– If things escalate and become unproductive, it’s okay to politely end the interview like I did.
Share your thoughts and experiences below! Hashtag and let’s spark a discussion. 😊
Yeah, when I realized that the position I was interviewing for was a one year paid internship instead of a real job position( not mentioned in the job description/ position description), and I consider myself at a point of my career long past internships
Sure. Interviewed at Microsoft once and the first guy on the loop starts telling me the position is completely different than what the recruiter and hiring manager stated.
I just thanked him for his candor and time, then ducked out of the entire loop.
Good for you! Looking back, there are many interviews I wish I’d cut short. But when you need a job, I guess you tend to remain hopeful until it’s painfully clear you shouldn’t be.
Job bait and switched me. Came into interview only to find out that they wanted to start me off on a temp to possible full time after 6 months. Told them that’s not what I applied for and got up and left. Lady chased me out saying “this is how we hire all our employees”.
I now make a point to bring a copy of the job posting to every interview to make sure they don’t pull any tricks.
A couple weeks ago I got a call from a company I applied to. Really fancy title but they didn’t list the salary, but with a title better than my previous one I expected the same or better salary. She told me the range and it was embarrassingly low. She said ok? And I said the salary is so low we wouldn’t be able to negotiate it but thank you for calling, click.
I have walked out of a couple of MLM “interviews” in my day.
I was interviewing for a teaching job. The interviewer sat close to me, put her hand on my knee and said “I think we will have a very close relationship”. Oh, oh. Got to go, Asta la vista, baby!
So I work in healthcare and interviewed for a job within a hospital I already worked in. I knew the manager and most of the other employees.
When I showed up to the interview they had to tell me immediately that the salary was a typo and this (x amount) was in fact the salary. That figure was below minimum wage.
When I pointed that out the guy proceeded to argue that it wasn’t and I clearly didn’t want the job and perhaps I wasn’t right for the role.
I said no, I’m obviously not. Walked right out.
No one else accepted the role either. I hope that guy was fired but I doubt it.
Yeah, had a rude person ask me a complicated data analysis question in broken English and get frustrated when my answer was rote steps instead of some surprisingly insightful genius solution specific to internal tools I’d never even seen. It got to a point of disrespect that I straight up told her that I would rather work at a McD’s than spend a day under her lead and hung up. HR called me later to apologize for her conduct.
I interviewed for an Amazon position via Teams. 3rd interview in, I had to complete an algebraic equation while talking about 3 things I would change to impact culture in my last job. I tried and I just apologized and left the panel meeting.
Once I was interviewed for a job I was over qualified for and when the woman discovered I had three part time jobs a volunteer position a field practicum and was a full time university student since graduated her take away was I hadn’t had a full time job in a few years.
She asked how I thought I could handle 40 hours a week and I explained my placement was 35 hours volunteer role 5 hours job 1 20 job 2 15 and job 3 15, plus 15 hours of lecture and 15 hours of homework and that it would be easy, but that I’m not interested anymore
I wouldn’t work for her for a billion dollars, and I don’t usually get petty about these things but it feels good I make more than her and the position I had applied for. Like I hope she gets every red light forever
I’ve had a couple where I realized after a few minutes that I did not want to work there, bad vibes or questions that showed it was really going to suck being there. I just continued the interviews for practice.
Yes! Recently was in a zoom-type meeting w/ a leader from a FAANG for a position. Dude was a pompous ass in the interview- didn’t introduce himself, or do ANYTHING to set a tone for the meeting that is conducive to bringing on talent w/ a rare skill set.
Decided I wasn’t going to partake any longer & disconnected the call and immediately withdrew my application.
I’ve never taken that kind of action before, but honestly, given his behavior, and scheduling shenanigans I thought to myself “ there is NO way I will accept an offer from this shit show of a company, why stay in this call?”.
My time is valuable too.
Yes twice some company 2 years apart. Money was being discussed and the offer was insulting, a lot less $ than what I was on at the time. They hit me up 2 years later, lots of calls, video interviews with CEO etc.
Money talk: 40k less than what I was on. Politely told them to loose my number.
Haven’t walked out of an interview but turned jobs and first interviews down. Recently, one asked me for a first interview but did not post salary. I asked for it in advance, $25 for a very high demand role. I think she was very understanding when I said “no thank you.”
Technically yes. It was a sort of hiring fair at a senior center, which I was not informed of. I was under the impression it was a normal interview. So I arrived at the time they gave me. I realized immediately that it was a multiple candidate interview, but still decided to go through with it because I was desperate for employment (still am). I signed in and there were about 5 other people waiting. Each person that came before me interviewed and left, and several people who came in AFTER me interviewed and left. About an hour and half in, I went back to the check in station and mentioned that I had been waiting awhile and still hadn’t been seen as politely as possible. They said that they were backed up and would get to me soon. I was there over 3 fucking hours. A girl came in about an hour after me, and walked out after waiting about an hour after she realized her time was also being wasted. After 3 hours of seeing multiple people walk in and wait about 5 minutes before being interviewed, I crossed my name off the list and told the front woman that they wasted my time and it was incredibly rude that I was EARLY for interview and waited for nothing. I was so pissed.
It was quite literally my 5th time getting interviewed all on separate dates. I asked them why this process was taking so long and they said they wanted to make sure they get the best fit for the role and have narrowed it down to the last 5 and should only take 2 more interviews at most. I told them they narrowed it down to 4 and thanked them for wasting 3 months of my life.
When I was applying for entry level positions, I got an interview at a local company where I had a couple friends already working in similar positions to what I was applying for. Thought everything was going great, finished the afternoon with the VP of the area that was hiring. Thought that went well too, but she finished the conversation saying that I would be a great fit for the company, but I wasn’t good enough for her department.
Imagine my surprise when the internal Recruiter called me back a couple of days later asking me to come back in for a second round of interviews. About 20 minutes into the “2nd round” interview (with someone I didn’t meet my first time in), I realize I am interviewing for a completely different job than I had applied for. I thanked the interviewer for her time, told her I hadn’t actually applied for this job, got up, and left.
Yes! One from earlier this year. I was interviewed for a leadership position for this company that said they worked in advertising. About ten minutes into the interview I learned it was an MLM. The guy was also a complete bro-jerk and did not let me get one word in. He then told me “Your experience is cute but I don’t bring anyone on straight away as a manager. You’d have to show me you deserve it over one year” (I have 13 years experience in business and team management, mind you).
I stopped being interested five minutes into this man talking but I planned just to wait it out and use it as a practice interview. After that last comment, I was over it. I told him I appreciated the time but I didn’t think this would be a good fit for me. That’s when EVERYTHING changed. He started getting really irritated and couldn’t understand why I wouldn’t want this job. I did everything in my power to stay polite and professional but he would not let me leave. He kept negging me on my experience (even though I was very overqualified) and talking about how wonderful their company was and how I must hate making money. I finally just made a dart for the door and ran.
Yeah. They said it would be one on one. It was a panel. They said here are the questions we will ask in advance so you can prepare. They were carefully designed misdirects to the real questions. I’m sure it’s we want to see how you respond and think on your feet nonsense. I explained to them no serious candidate is going to sit through this and stunts like these are why your turnover is incredibly high and walked out.
Recruiter “I have a project management position with the Southern Baptist Convention”
Me “I would not be comfortable with that, take care,” click.
Had a dude want to pay me very little for very extensive requirements. I laughed said goodluck and hung up since it was a zoom one.
CUTCO KNIVES AKA VECTOR MARKETING.
BYEEEEEE
I didn’t walk out, but I should have.
I interviewed for a receptionist manager position at a hotel in Tahlequah, OK. (I think Oklahoma says enough lol)
She informed me that they terminated the last girl for being pregnant. 🤯
Yes they lied about pay at the time I had 15 years cleaning experience said $15 went me to take 10.50 nooooo
Yeah I do social work so there is always a fear they will try to take advantage of us because they know we care about the clients. The only call 24/7 and we’re all just like family was a hard no. We’d be “just like family” because no one would ever see their real family
Yes several times. A interview is a two way street. If it becomes clear for what ever reason that it isn’t going to work then I cut it off. No reason continuing to waste each others times.
No, but I wish I did and I regret SO MUCH that I haven’t on a job that was asking me if I am married, if I have young kids and other personal questions that was none of their business.
They were looking to discriminate me. I can only imagine their thought process “she’s a young woman, if she has young kids, she’s not going to be giving 100%” or “she doesn’t have kids yet, so she might soon and will have to pay her maternity leave”.
Disgusting. Wish. I. Walked. Out. On. Them.
I left in the middle of a group interview for a commission only health insurance sales job.
Several years ago I went on a job interview that was through a recruiter. When I got into the interview, I could tell the person interviewing me had no interest in me because I was a woman after I walked into the room. I was given a test on a program that I’ve used for years and was good at, however it was set up in a way, I’ve never worked before, in a conference room, shared from someone else’s computer on a large screen about 15 ft from me that I wasn’t familiar with at all. I wear contacts and readers so attempting a task on a screen that is far away is impossible for me to complete with what was being asked. I walked out of the interview and told. The recruiter I wasn’t interested in the job. I ended up finding a better one not too long after that. My experience with recruiters has been a little better also.
Yes, a group interview for a receptionist!!! position at a medical facility. About 8 of us are there and they are asking the usual questions”why do you want to work here” and then get into more personal questions, which honestly seemed illegal and rude. The woman next to me had already said how she was a single mom and badly needed a job to support her family and they had the AUDACITY to ask me why I felt I deserved the job more than her?? I said “I don’t”, got up and walked out.
It was honestly the most disgusting thing I’d ever experienced professionally. I always call it the Hunger Games of job interviews.
Many:
1) “we don’t pay you during your training period because they’re in the way”
2) a company called “boxes on the go” had me meet them at an Amazon warehouse and the first question was “why do you want to work for Amazon”
3) “We know you applied for :blank: but this is actually for :blank:”
4) “Yeah we know we listed this at yada/hr but this is actually yikes/hr”
Only once. I was trying to relocate and the company wouldn’t do a virtual interview. I ended up driving two hours to this bank branch and waited. One of the employees informed me there was a mistake and the manager was at a different branch she managed for the afternoon 10 minutes away. I wasn’t happy about the miscommunication, but I let it go and drove over to the second branch.
Fast forward to the actual interview, and the manager began laughing at me for one of my responses. She paused the interview twice to go out to lobby to make small talk with one of the customers. When she came back the second time I tried to politely tell her she was beginning to waste my time. I drove over 100 miles for the interview, she was acting unprofessionally, and she wasn’t really respecting my time. I told her I understood if she thought I wasn’t a good fit for the role, but asked her to treat me with the same amount of respect I gave her.
She laughed at me again, told me was had to go do something, and that she would return. She began making a cup of coffee in the lobby and began talking to one of her tellers about how expensive her new car and Gucci bag were. I got up and left and she shouted “you’re being unprofessional! Haha!”
I wouldn’t have worked for her anyway. I called the recruiter back to tell them about the experience and they didn’t believe me. I received a call from the recruiter a week or two later and was asked to interview at another branch. Needless to say I declined.
I wanted to so bad once but no never did it. It was a software job in Dubai. The guy was super confident and arrogant. I got money I can do whatever I want, I am doing you a favor here kinda type. Don’t want to get racist here but really confirmed some stereotypes.